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No, it's a recognition that we aren't going to have a test, so we have to have an age. If we have a test, a lot of the guys who really want to stay past 65 would have been kicked out by 55. No one wants to open that can of worms. Air guardian has an interesting perspective from his particular operation. But the passenger airliners do not go to outfields once every few years, you simply don't need someone with 30 or 40 years of experience to safely operate. That doesn't mean they can't safely operate, but this argument that you need decades of experience to do this job is just laughable. It's a cookie cutter operation even at some of the "challenging" airfields. Yeah, I don't want to send a 23-year-old brand new Captain off to Guatemala on his own, but no one was arguing for that. In the passenger carriers the biggest threat is a compound emergency that requires very quick decision making. Considering most 65-year-olds have never even had an engine failure, longevity does not contribute to that. A focus on training, and mental quickness is what will separate pilots after about 10 years of experience. Like tac airlifter pointed out, slowing down and asking for clarification alleviates the majority of passenger carrier mishaps. You don't need 30 years of experience to do that. If we really want to start down the cognitive testing route, the 60 plus crowd is not going to like it when they start showing the cognitive decline curve on a chart on CNN every time there's a mishap. At a certain point the people in the back of the plane are going to ask why their pilot is lower on the curve. Yes, initially there will be a threshold set based on the average 65-year-old, but that threshold will be a lower score than the average 55-year-old or 40-year-old or 35-year-old. Once you start quantifying something that costs billions of dollars when it goes wrong, people will ask "why are we settling for less than the best?" No one cares when a few rich people die in a business jet, which is why everybody 65 and older can continue to fly in that career. This is a "problem" that does not need to be solved.

kick people out of your seat? GMAFB.

Certainly with all of our knowledge and technology we could devise a test to see if someone has declined, no? I just don't understand how people can be so itchy to discriminate based on just throwing down a blanket "no one is capable of flying after the age of 65" when it's clearly age discrimination. Which is exactly what it is. All it is in actuality is a mask to kick people out of your "seat." Which is BS.

First she will be hired into the next Democrat elected administration. FIFY They live in Alvin Bragg's district. The first round that was arrested was released, charged dropped and the arrest expunged form their records. I disagree on the retarded part...this is purposeful and has been for some time. Conservatives turned a blind eye as liberals took over Universities. Remember, those who can..do....those who can't teach. When they chant "I am Hamas" and openly call for a Jewish Genocide. NYPD release video showing professional 'protest consultant' at Columbia University

Very good discussions and definitely quite a bit off path from what I expected. Multiple perspectives regarding what we predominantly do in our specific realms in the world of aviation. Here I was thinking, dang - they’re going to have all of the conversations we had on our flight. Flights in my little world range from a minimal six hours to 14 hours plus just the other day which is normal. *Bottom line for myself - I will almost always take the Capt/FO who has been with our outfit the longest as we are not a cookie cutter operation. Sometimes none of the crew have ever seen the destination we are headed for and I will once again fall on my sword to the longevity crowd as it’s worldwide experIence that brings the rain. As you can see it’s situational as most things and the “almost always” I mentioned before is because of the known flyers I have flown who are outliers at best. **I can see the various view points on all the sides when pertaining to those types of standard operations. Good stuff!

And we are all collectively paying for her degrees and probably future salary and health care!

those are both terrible and not the only options ….

This is funny as shit. Turd snorkler. How have I made it to my middle ages without hearing this gem? Yes. I started spelling turd with a U. It's the appropriate letter.

Mock all we want…the unfortunate truth is that she’ll probably be a senator some day.

Glad he got out!

https://apnews.com/article/holloman-air-force-base-f16-jet-crash-84504e14dbb43837839d4d2e824c08eb Pilot ejected and taken to the hospital and released.

That bio is a word salad of bullshit. When I read this kind of crap, I always picture that bar scene in Good Will Hunting where he’s mocking the Harvard idiots. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

She's a PHD professor type..... Sorry. She is a paid instructor & PhD candidate at Columbia studying "theories of the imagination & poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens"

Homeboy in the back in his little crop top number should wear that outfit into Rafah and see how far he gets.

This is what happens when parents didn’t discipline their iPad kids, now they’re college students. Speaking of one retard.

I love my VP9.

I’ll take “Phrasing that is blessedly not part of my vernacular” for $800, Alex

Except those aren't the choices. The old guys I fly with are clearly very experienced and have a wealth of knowledge. But most don't recognize how unsafe they can be, and arrogance is a hazard they are blind to. I'll take the young CA who taxis slow and asks for input over the 65 YO who has done this so many times he doesn't need to double check that last radio call.

Gotta second this statement. It applies in almost every situation. When I retired from the AFRC, dudes were calling me the next few UTAs wondering where the hell I was. It's my goal in my current airline job to retire and have the bobs see the paperwork and say "who?"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-pilot-vietnam-war-disappearance-spy-mission-accounted-for-john-c-g-kerr/ 🍺

Pretty sure the catalyst for the 25 hour CVR was the Air Canada flight who lined up with the taxiway for landing at SFO. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759 The NTSB published their final report in September 2018; five recommendations were made.[16] As the pilots were slow to report the incident, the airplane had made another flight and the cockpit voice recording was recorded over. The NTSB has stated that it wants faster incident reporting and considers recommending capturing the last 25 hours, an increase from two hours.[28]

HK fan myself. Have a P2000SK for CCW, and a VP9 Tactical OR. Looking forward to the VP9SK, now that it is CA compliant, starting to hit dealers.

I believe the intelligence service does produce viable information. It is required to. It has to produce some viable and objectively truthful information to protect its existence. But it can also use its implied credibility to lean on the scale. They could call Speaker Johnson in, scare the shit out of him, and he would never be able to refute contents of the classified briefing. If he tried, they'd label him a clown. That's an enormous amount of power. And temptation. "If you only knew what I knew, you'd be praising me for spending public money and intensifying these conflicts." Well.. if the threat is that dire, don't I have a right to be briefed on it? After all, it is I who am being indebted and my friends and family who may be ultimately fighting these conflicts? "Sources and methods. If you were to know, then our enemies would know. Then they might know how we know, and that would threaten our ability to produce the viable, but secret information needed to ensure our continued ability to steer the country's leadership." How long do they get to use that excuse? Whatever small amount of blind implicit trust you have left in our intelligence and leadership is being monetized. It's like giving these people your credit card and telling them to charge whatever they want, as long as it keeps you safe. No explanation required. At some point, they gotta look us and say, "Caveat Emptor. These people are morons, they don't deserve to keep their wealth."

What a name! Kinda like Bigus Dickus.

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